Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.
The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings. It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.